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Plenary Session for the Fifth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies: Ko Koens

"From Overtourism to Responsive and Relevant Urban Tourism"

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Dr. Ko Koens is professor of new urban tourism at Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam and has been involved in sustainable tourism for nearly twenty years. His work focuses on sustainable urban tourism with an emphasis on new urban tourism, overtourism, city hospitality, and tourism of inequalities (slum tourism). In recent years, he has mainly worked on managing tourism impacts. Koens is the author of the UNWTO report on overtourism and editor of the books Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics and Tourism and Geographies of Inequality: The New Global Slumming Phenomenon. In addition to this, he has also published in a variety of academic journals.

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